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Chicken Tsukune Recipe (Simmered) - Japanese Recipe

By Setsuko Yoshizuka, About.com

Tsukune are round or oval-shaped meat balls made by kneading ground meat with other ingredients. Tsukune can be fried, simmered, or grilled. Chicken meat balls are simmered in this tsukune recipe. Japanese Chicken Recipes

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Ingredients:

  • 1 pound ground chicken
  • 1 egg
  • 2 tbsp flour
  • 1 tsp fresh ginger juice
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1/4 onion
  • 2 cups water
  • 2 tbsp mirin
  • 3 tbsp soy sauce

Preparation:

Chop onion. Mix chicken, chopped onion, salt, egg, and fresh ginger juice in a bowl. Mix well and make small meat balls. Boil water in a pan and add meat ball in the pan. Boil meat balls until they are cooked and add soy sauce and mirin. Simmer meat balls over medium heat for 5 min.

*Makes 4 servings

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